He is the director of European protohistory studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University.

He has directed numerous excavation sites, most notably the parvis of Notre-Dame and the Square Court of the Louvre in Paris.

Kruta is a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Real Academia de la Historia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and the Académie de Versailles [fr].

[1][2] Venceslas Kruta was born on 4 November 1939 in Saumur, Pays de la Loire.

He studied prehistory and archeology at Masaryk University in Czechoslovakia between 1956 and 1961, then worked as an assistant at the Czech Academy of Sciences between 1963 and 1971.